How hard is it to run it modeless? Also I love projects like this, so thanks!
GNU Zile (https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/) is another one I really enjoy with a more emacs focus (i.e. modeless) (but again, changeable in any direction you want with Lua).
It shouldn’t be too hard: [kilo](https://github.com/antirez/kilo), the editor on which this is partially based, is modeless. All of the modes are thus addons that I’ve built. You’d have to tweak a bit of the code to make it usable as a modeless editor, but it could definitely work!